---
title: "Samsung refrigerator error code 40E"
description: "Samsung refrigerator error code 40E: On cabinets where the ice maker lives in the fresh-food door, a small fan keeps that compartment cold."
url: "https://samsungmiami.support/error-codes/refrigerator-ice-room-fan/"
date_modified: "2026-09-04"
Appliance type: "Ice makers, Refrigerators"
---


# Samsung refrigerator error code 40E

### What 40E means on this make

On cabinets where the ice maker lives in the fresh-food door, a small fan keeps that compartment cold. This code is that fan. Like the other fan codes on this make it is very often ice on the fan rather than a dead motor.

### The other ways Samsung prints this one

40E · 40C

Samsung publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with. They mean the same thing and they are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page.

### Where this appears, and why not to clear it

On the appliance’s own display. Samsung reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the same machines without one blink their cycle lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power — Samsung asks for this itself on its refrigerator and dishwasher pages, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has.

### What to do about it

- Note the code exactly as it appears, and do not clear it — Samsung asks for this and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful.
- Note what the cabinet is actually doing as well: which compartment is warm, whether ice is being made, whether you can hear a fan.
- Samsung publishes no procedure for this condition, so the honest next step is a measured diagnosis rather than a part.

### Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is [evaporator fan repair](/services/evaporator-fan-repair/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 506-1256](tel:+13055061256) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

Ice room fan error

What this one means

What 40E means on this make

On cabinets where the ice maker lives in the fresh-food door, a small fan keeps that compartment cold. This code is that fan. Like the other fan codes on this make it is very often ice on the fan rather than a dead motor.

The other ways Samsung prints this one

40E · 40C

Samsung publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with. They mean the same thing and they are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page.

Where this appears, and why not to clear it

On the appliance’s own display. Samsung reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the same machines without one blink their cycle lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power — Samsung asks for this itself on its refrigerator and dishwasher pages, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has.

What to do about it

Note the code exactly as it appears, and do not clear it — Samsung asks for this and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful.

Note what the cabinet is actually doing as well: which compartment is warm, whether ice is being made, whether you can hear a fan.

Samsung publishes no procedure for this condition, so the honest next step is a measured diagnosis rather than a part.

Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is evaporator fan repair, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 506-1256](tel:+13055061256) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

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